Trawl

Johnson, B S

ISBN 10: 1447200365 / ISBN 13: 9781447200369

Edité par Picador, 2013

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR004919384

Synopsis :

With an introduction by novelist Jon McGregor.

The novel describes, in the first-person, a three-week voyage aboard a deep-sea fishing trawler in the Barents Sea, not unlike the one Johnson undertook in preparation to write the book. Isolating himself from the world he knows, as well as from the ship’s crew, the narrator reflects on past events and relationships, hoping for some kind of redemption. This convincingly authentic and harrowing attempt to get to the heart of the human condition is one of Johnson’s finest novels.

In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B S Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Convinced that ‘telling stories is telling lies’ and that he should write about ‘nothing else but what happens to me’, Johnson produced Trawl.

À propos de l'auteur: B S Johnson (1933–1973), an admirer of Joyce and Beckett, was a novelist whose works combine verbal inventiveness with typographical innovations. His works include Albert Angelo, Trawl, The Unfortunates, House Mother Normal and Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Trawl
Éditeur : Picador
Date d'édition : 2013
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good